Instrument

  • ID: 3487
  • Type: viola
  • Maker: Domenico Montagnana
  • Year built: 1717
  • City: Venice
  • Name: Tertis, Shore
 
Back: One-piece
Body Length: 43.8 cm.

Photos

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  • front
  • back

Iconography Index

"Chase Fulfilled", Tully Potter, The Strad, August, 1988, 1988: Black-and-white photos (front & back).


Notes

"'I took a chance on buying it,' wrote Tertis in his memoirs, for it was shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard.... No case was available -- it was such a large instrument 17? inches -- so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.'"
"Chase Fulfilled", Tully Potter, The Strad, August, 1988, 1988.

Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
Roger Chase     1994     
J. & A. Beare  1977       
Bernard Shore   1937    1977   
...         
Lionel Tertis   1920    1937   
...         

Current owner Current owner
Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician

Players

Name Played From Played In Played To
Roger Chase   1979  1994   
...       
Bernard Shore       1977 
...       
Lionel Tertis        
...       

Current player Current player
Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments. Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments

References

"A gentleman of the viola", Tully Potter, The Strad, April, 1996, 1996.

"Chase Fulfilled", Tully Potter, The Strad, August, 1988, 1988.

"In defence of the small viola", Daniel Whitman, The Strad, February, 1994, 1994.

http://www.oberlin.edu/newserv/01may/roger_chase_release.html